Demurrage is the cost of a ship waiting, and on a petroleum cargo it accumulates fast enough to erase a trade’s margin in a couple of days. It turns on one question that sounds simple and rarely is: when did the clock actually start? By MarineCraft Journal · 8 September 2026 · … Read more
A dropped spanner from thirty metres carries roughly the energy of a small car at walking pace. Offshore lifting has more paperwork around it than almost any other routine task, and the reason is that the failure mode is measured in fatalities rather than delays. By MarineCraft Journal · 7 September 2026 … Read more
On an offshore platform, detection has to work before there is a fire. The system is watching for gas, not flame, because by the time something is burning the useful window has already closed. That inverts how detection is designed, maintained, and audited. By MarineCraft Journal · 28 August 2026 · 10 mins … Read more
The hard part of staffing an offshore scope is rarely finding people who can do the work. It is finding people whose certificates prove they can, are valid in the right jurisdiction, and are not about to expire halfway through the rotation. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 9 mins … Read more
Two ships bunkering the same grade on the same day, in ports a few hundred miles apart, can pay materially different prices. Crude explains the general level. Almost everything interesting happens in the layers stacked on top of it. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 9 mins read 0.50%the sulphur … Read more
The offshore safety officer role sits on a stack of separate qualifications: a statutory appointment, a professional safety certification, survival training, and medical fitness. Each comes from a different body, and a gap in any one keeps the person on the beach. By MarineCraft Journal · 21 August 2026 · 9 mins … Read more
